Resources for English Teachers

Keys to Great Teaching

I have divided my own rules for great teaching
into four
categories:

Credibility

Passion

Logic

Kinesthetics (enhancing
learning through use of the body as well as the mind).

Three of these connect to the Greek terms, ethos, pathos, and logos. I realized while
teaching these terms as part of persuasion in my English 1A classes that they
constitute the fundamentals of my own “persuasion” – which we call “teaching.”

The fourth category, kinesthetics, or Teaching the Whole Student, is my
list of techniques and reminders that our students are not little brains
encased in fluid and connected to electrodes.
Instead, our students have bodies which need to move, hands that like to
draw, backs that get tired of sitting, and so on. Marilyn Patton